Number Plate Buffs

[97f150]

This is what the plates on both of my trucks look like:

Louisiana car plates look like this:

An older style Louisiana car plate:

 

[oppirs]

Originally Posted By: css9450

And in true Illinois fashion, we've had those for a decade now (since 2001) and some are starting to look a little shabby by now. But they can't hold a candle to the previous design we had (the two-tone blueish gray) which was in use from 1983-2001! Lots of people had plates that were little more than squares of rusted tin. Unreadable!


For your viewing pleasure. This is readable but all that krazing. Very industrial style, 1976 was better, liked 1970 do the NM color theme.

 

[Spazdog]

Our license plates were kind of busy:

Oil derricks, cowboy, space shuttle, and the "stars at night" but the new ones:

I don't like them at all.

I might have to spend the extra money to get a specialty plate:

 

[JHZR2]

Originally Posted By: Rick in PA
There was a period when I was young that our state embossed the outline of PA on the plate. I thought that was cool:


Our current plates are so yucky I wouldn't bother boring you with an image.

Yeah, PA isnt on the top of my list as a good plate. I always liked the "You've got a friend in PA" plates. NJ isnt the best, but it also looks the same as has been used since the 1950s, so Im OK with that. I liked the blue with buff letters the best.

I have these currently:

My grandparents are still using their plate from 1961, what stinks is that you cant transfer a plate from one person to another in NJ.

 

[dailydriver]

Originally Posted By: Spazdog
Our license plates were kind of busy:

Oil derricks, cowboy, space shuttle, and the "stars at night"


They should have had the cowboy riding the Space Shuttle, and then made the state song (state native) Steve Miller's "Space Cowboy".

 

[PF52]

Originally Posted By: Spazdog

Oil derricks, cowboy, space shuttle...


I always saw an irony in those plates. Is that the Columbia just before it disintegrated over the Texas sky?

 

[Spazdog]

It was actually in reference to Houston's NASA Johnson Space Center.

 

[tom slick]

I like Calif.'s old blue and yellow plates:

The current edition plates are fairly boring unless you order custom fundraising plates such as this

 

[opus1]

oppirs, the example you have is actually pretty clean compared to what I've seen passing as a license plate from the new stock! Apparently the vendor cheaped-out on something and the first batch went bad much quicker than expected....then again if Illinois replaced plates more than once every 15 years or so it might not be an issue.....

I like some of the Illinois specialty plates, but thanks to former governor Blago, I don't plan to ever buy one. He made the comment once that since people are willing to pay extra for vanity/specialty plates, that means the state isn't charging enough for the standard ones and the costs should go up. So I won't want to give our current "governor" the wrong impression and encourage that thinking.

I do plan on getting AV plates for the Ranger in 2019 though, since it will be old enough and is barely driven, and it will actually work out less expensive for me.

 

[oppirs]

opus1,

I have looked at the AV plate for my Harley when it turned 25 last year. Nice to pay once for 3 years of registration.

But there lies the evil.... You can only drive from show to home to show. No daily street driving.